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A poll of film curators, historians, and festival programmers has put two well-respected heroes of Asian cinema atop a list of the decade's most important movies. Cinematheque, the year-round screening program of the Toronto International Film Festival,...
Tags: Canada, Toronto, Hakka Taiwanese, Hakka people, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Politics, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Atanarjuat, David Cronenberg, Toronto International Film Festival, Guy Maddin, Zacharias Kunuk, Cinematheque, Filmex, Entertainment Culture
A totally unknown British actress lands coveted leading role in a film and becomes the toast of Hollywood, drawing constant comparisons to Audrey Hepburn and stirring an Oscar buzz to boot. In the case of Carey Mulligan, this scenario is happening in...
Tags: Carey Mulligan, London Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Emma Thompson, actress carey
Actress Vanessa Redgrave is defending the Toronto Film Festival's decision to showcase films about Tel Aviv. In a letter to the New York Review of Books co-written by artist Julian Schnabel and playwright Martin Sherman, Redgrave said the protest by a...
Tags: Tel Aviv, Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto Film Festival
British Columbia director Carl Bessai's small-town drama "Cole" grabbed the best Canadian feature trophy at the Atlantic Film Festival, which wrapped Sept. 26. The low-budget indie, which stars Richard de Klerk as a would-be writer romancing a rich city...
Tags: Atlantic Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival
The Toronto International Film Festival ended on the weekend after unspooling more than 300 films during a 10-day cinematic marathon. The Canadian Press writers who covered the fest pick some memorable moments. Kiwi director Jane Campion ("The Piano")...
Ashutosh Gowariker's What's Your Raashee? got a solid welcome at the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday despite some groans that the 192 minute-long film is too unfocussed. Minutes before the red carpet ceremony for the movie, the director...
T he Toronto audience was feeling Precious this year as they picked their favourite movie at the 10-day 34th Toronto International Film Festival: Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire , won the Cadillac People's Choice Award on Saturday, setting...
Tags: Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto Film Festival, Colin Firth, choice awarded, white stripes, Oprah Winfrey, Canada, Toronto
So where were you on the night of Sept. 14, when you first heard the news? Were you, like me, sitting at the kitchen table watching E! and building a church out of foam board for your pig bride-and-groom salt-and-pepper shakers? And when the news broke,...
Tags: Patrick Swayze’s, dirty dance, pancreatic cancer, Toronto International Film Festival, Los Angeles
After 10 days of movie madness, the credits are set to roll on the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday. The closing night film is "The Young Victoria" starring Emily Blunt. It's from Quebec director Jean-Marc Vallee, who helmed 2005's "C.R.A.Z.Y."
Tags: Office Star John Krasinski, emily blunt, Toronto International Film Festival, krasinski opened, Canada, Toronto
The opening night movie at the 34th Toronto International Film Festival was "Creation," featuring Paul Bettany as a seriously distraught Charles Darwin. The festival's opening night party, which immediately followed, featured strolling players, in an...